opkg issues. best way to run opkg

Cédric Berger cedric.berger74 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 16 16:47:29 CEST 2008


On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 16:37, Emilis Dambauskas <emilis.d at gmail.com> wrote:

> My recipe:
>
> 1. open terminal in the phone
> 2. # opkg upgrade > upgrade.log &
> 3. ssh from your PC/laptop into the phone
> 4. # tail -f upgrade.log
> 5. If you are disconnected, just reconnect and run 4. again
>
> This way you also get a log, which may be useful if something crashes.
>
> --
> Emilis Dambauskas

I'll try again once back home...

I asked the same question on community list.
You can refer to it :

"Updates"   http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-July/022104.html

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 15:45, arne anka <openmoko at ginguppin.de> wrote:
>> opkg update was ok but then upgrade ran until my ssh connection was
>> dropped.
>
> dunno why dropbear drops the connection on upgrade, ususally existing
> connections shouldn't be affected. maybe one of dropbear's .preinst or
> .postinst scripts causes the restart.
> try
> nohup opkg upgrade &
> the upgrade should continue even if teh connection is lost
>



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